Chem. Also -ine. [f. URO-1 + ERYTHRIN.] A reddish pigment found in the urine of persons suffering from fevers, esp. rheumatic fever.
1845. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 216. Uroerythrin, in all probability, owes its origin to the hæmatin of the blood-corpuscles.
1863. W. O. Markham, trans. Anal. Urine, etc., 49. Uroerythrine is the pigment which gives to sediments of uric acid and urate of soda their brick or rosy red colour.
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., YII. 416. Its oxidation [i.e., of urochrome] gives rise to a red pigment called uroerythrin.
